Exceptionally easy isomerization of acetylenic alcohols with potassium 3-aminopropylamide. A new, high yield synthesis of functionally differentiated αω-difunctional structures

1 January 1976

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 23,p. 959-960
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000959

Abstract

Potassium 3-aminopropylamide, readily prepared in situ from KH and 3-aminopropylamine, effects rapid, multipositional isomerization of the triple bond in prop-2-ynylic and other acetylenic alcohols to the chain terminus remote from the hydroxy function, within minutes at 0–20 °C.

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POTASSIUM